[rescue] Sad end to SGI Power Challenge XL story

[Harri Haataja]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 12:44:34PM -0500, Corda Albert J DLVA wrote:
> > From: Brian Hechinger [mailto:wonko at arkham.ws]
> > On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 11:37:02PM -0500, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > > A side note, this idiot:
> > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2010028842
> > > needs to be severely beaten.
> > 
> > i thought the refrigerator project was made out of a gutted case
> > from a completely non-functional machine.  unless this guy is a
> > copycat and had a working machine that he turned into a fridge.
> > asshole.
> 
> I exchanged some email with this guy... from the impression I got, not
> all the boards were functional, even though he states that the box
> itself was functional before he disembowled it (most notably the CPU,
> which apparently has one or more bad/missing CPU chips, and possibly
> the VCAM board...). This did not give me a warm fuzzy, along with the
> fact that he was unable/unwilling to provide part numbers for the
> boards he had.
> 
> As a result, I have to say that he struck me as not terribly more than
> a PC-type who wanted to impress his friends with a fancy beer
> cooler... same sort who would take an antique clock and paint it
> bright pink to match the bathroom. Anyone who collects antique clocks
> has seen this at one time or another... it makes your hair stand on
> end 8-(

Gives another meaning to the word "rescue" in this sense, doesn't it.
We need to protect these poor things!

-- 
One cat just leads to another.
	-- Ernest Hemingway